Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-02
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NEWS AND NOTES.

AounC pdih, Iullduelpnla, Will De Qedl-
Gated Oct 10.
Henry George, since he has become
proprietor of an anti-poyerty society,
smokes 20-cent cigars.
John II. Starin will soon begin his
free excursion voyages for the newsboys
and poor of New York.
The Swedish War Minister has re-
signed because the Rigsdag refused to
grant his department. an extra military
credit.
The date of the execution of Max
well, alias Brooks, the murderer of Ar
thur Preller in st. Louis, has been set
for Aug. 70.
In making an address to school
children at Sydneyham This day the
German Crown Prince was unable to
speak above a whisper.
Sinclair Tousey, who died in New
y ork, Thursday, was the founder of the
American News company. He would
have been 70 in July.
Mrs. Grant has not, as recently
reported, repurchased one of the
houses in Washington which she trans
fered to w. II. Vanderbilt.
The wheat crop of Great Britain has
immensely improved the last few weeks,
and gives greater promise than at the
corresponding date in 1886.
Messrs. Houghton, Mifiin & Co.,
sent a fine basket of roses to Mrs. Har-
riet Beecher Stowe on her 10Th birth
day anniversary last week.
Cardinal Gibbons has intimated that
the prospective Catholic university will
be located in New York, and not in
Washington, as at first proposed.
The Rev. F. S. Smith, author of sMy
Country, IT'S of Thee" has written a
hymn to be sung at the coming centen-
NAL celebration at Mount Holyoke
Seminary.
The Rev. DR.. Henry M. Scudder in
tends to spend the rest of his life in
Japan. He has given a farewell lecture
on that country in his old church at San
Francisco.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth is sc
years old, has written sixty-eight nov
els, and is apparently good for many
more before death calls her to lay down
her prolific pen.
The Spanish Senate has voted 100000
toward the erection of statue to the
late King Alfonso in front of the royal
palace at Madrid, the public to contri-
butte the balance.
Miss ODER, once manager of the
Boston Ideal opera company, has lately
made $50, 200 in a little transaction in
a piece Of property in Washington once
the home of John Quincy Adams.
William H. Stevenson, Vice-Presi-
dent and General Manager of the Bos-
ton, Hoosac Tunnel & Western Rail
road, is only So, but is looked upon as
the coming man in railway circles in
New England.
Ex-Gov. Hoadly of Ohio will deliver
the Grafton at the Phi Beta Kappa CEN
tennial celebration at Dartmouth Col
lege this month, He will probably re-
ceive an honorary degree from the COL
lege at commencement.
Ex-Gov. St. John of Kansas makes
his headquarters this year at the Grand
Union Hotel, New York, and proposes
to make summer campaign in the in
terests of prohibition among the Allan
tic coast watering places.
The Emperor of Austria lately at
tended a matinee performance for the
first time. The occasion was the rem
dering of Patience by MI. D'Oyly
Carte's company in aid of the fund for
establishing in Vienna Jubilee
Memorial Home for British Governesses.
Mrs. Amanda Delmas of St. Mary
Parish has been elected a member of
the Louisiana Sugar-Planters' Associa-
ton, with all it's rights and privileges
except the right to pay dues She is a
creole, and personally superintends all
the operations of her extensive planta-
ton.
Ameer Abdurrahman of Afghanistan
is pleasant person to meet in an Of
fetal capacity. He administers Justice
i'll person to all of his subjects within
his reach. He has only two sentences
for all offenders: Bekowshid'' -cutout
his tongue-or, "Gagava Kounid''-
hang him.
Arrangements have been perfected
for submarine cable to be laid from
Vancouver to Australia by way of the
Sandwich and Fiji Islands. The line
will cost $10,0OO,OOO, and an annual
subsidy of $4,000 has been secured
from the Canadian, Hawaiian, and
Australian Governments. ... a...
Walter Murray Gibson, the American
Premier of the Hawaiian Kingdom, is
said to be not only the power behing
the throne, but ambitious to mount the
throne itself. He persistently declines
to be knighted or decorated and is
likely to be the leader in the anticipa-
ted revolt against King Kalakaua.
G. P. Huntington, the railroad mag
nate, runs to all the fires in New York
when able. He takes morbid delight
in seeing the flames leap and hearing
them roar, and frequently remains for
hours at CONGREGATIONS. Occasionally
he is accompanied by Mrs. Huntin gton,
who has the same desire in modified
form.
Mr.. Levi Z. Letter, who has recently
occupied MI. Blaine's house in Washing
ton, has gone to Europe with Instantly for
ayear's tour.He went West from Penn
sylvanla thirty-fve years ago a poor
boy, and is now rated at $4,000, 900,
owning more improved Chicago bust
ness property than any other one man.